ESTC Announces Garden of Tears and Hope
Pivinski: Fifth Avenue Patch In Response To Domestic Terrorism
In a written letter posted Sunday via social media, Environmental Shade Tree Commission Chair Tom Pivinski announced a new garden is underway along Fifth Avenue at Sunset Lake, west of Veterans Park.
“In response to the domestic terrorism in our country and our city, the Friends of the Asbury Park Environmental Shade Tree Commission [ESTC] is creating a new garden…called ‘The Garden of Tears and Hope,” Pivinski said in the post. “It is a garden that will honor our neighbors in Asbury Park and throughout the United States who have died because of gun violence.”
Featuring a butterfly design, the garden is meant to signifying new life, he said. Its name – ‘Tears and Hope’ is meant to provide solace while evoking a sense of hope.
“The garden will be accessible to all with a pathway and benches for meditation, prayer, remembrance, and peaceful respite among the colorful and varied annual and perennial plants,” Pivinski said.
While work on the garden has begun, Pivinski is asking supporters to make a financial contribution to help underwrite its cost and ongoing maintenance. The City’s Department of Public Works will clear the site and perennial plants have been ordered.
The ESTC is a 501(c)3 tax-deductible ad hoc City organization that maintains the 1.4 square mile community’s public gardens. Their projects include the Rain Garden and Community Garden at the municipal complex, Library Park’s Memorial Grove for the 2016 Orlando shooting victims, and the heart-shaped memorial pet garden on Lake Avenue.
Their over 10 greening projects, cleanups, garden planting, pruning, tree trimming, and weeding work are held 9 to 11 am on the first and third Saturdays from March through October.
Donations can be made to the Friends of APESTC, 1607 Emory Street, Asbury Park, NJ 07712. For more on the ESTC, click here or visit their Facebook page.
[Photo courtesy of the ESTC]
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